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...inducement to time payment purchasers of second hand automobiles at 25% to 50% discount, Studebaker Sales Co. in Chicago, offered to give away from 10 to 100 shares of common stocks including Allegheny Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co., Wabash Railway Co., Remington Rand Inc., Curtiss Wright, Armour "A", R. K. 0. Corp., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paid & Pacific Railroad...
...beginning of the 17th lap of the Thompson Trophy Race at Chicago last year Capt. Arthur H. Page, U. S. M.C., led the field by nearly a full lap in his swift Curtiss-Hawk. Then, without warning, the ship dove out of line at 200 m. p. h., crashed its pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack...
Banker Tinker ("Ned" to friends) has a big place on Long Island's Jericho Turnpike where he raises pheasants and other birds but seldom shoots them. He is a director of Transamerica, Barnsdall Corp., Curtiss Wright, Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Knox Hat Co., Long's Hat Stores, Kaskell & Kaskell, U. S. Hat Machinery Co.. White Motor Co. and several others...
...individual is the most gravely concerned with these questions it is probably not some hard-pressed railroad president or his worried banker but the man who is reputed to own more railroad securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...
...periods?Building and Consolidating?have of course overlapped each other by years. The present trunk lines represent such consolidations; the Van Sweringen Brothers were the best example of super-consolidators. Lately a new catalyzer has appeared in the railroad crucible. While Arthur Curtiss James was experiencing the novel sensation of swinging a sledge hammer, a new figure (once a day laborer) was experiencing the novel sensation of being a railroad president in his own right?President Patrick H. Joyce of Chicago Great Western...